Bestselling author, Alain de Botton has written about love, travel, status and how philosophy can console us. Now, he turns his attention to one of our most intense but often hidden love affairs: with our houses and their furnishings. He asks: What makes a house truly beautiful?…
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Takes the reader on a tour through the history and psychology of architecture and interior design. Looking at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers, this title examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, as well as offering…
De Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights.
"What makes a house truly beautiful? Will minimalism make us happier than ornaments? To answer these questions and many more, de Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, teasets and office comp…
One of the great, but often unmentioned, causes of both happiness and misery is the quality of our environment: the kind of walls, chairs, buildings and streets we're surrounded by. the-architecture-of-happiness And yet a concern for architecture and design is too often describe…
De Botton looks at buildings across the world, from medieval wooden huts to modern skyscrapers; he examines sofas and cathedrals, tea sets and office complexes, and teases out a host of often surprising philosophical insights ... [He] considers how our private homes and public e…
The handbook of interior design
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Machine generated contents note: Section 1: Introduction: The Shaping of Interior Design Section 2: Explorations of the History of Interior Design Chapter 1: An Overview of Phenomenology for the Design Disciplines David Wang Chapter 2: Dorothy Draper and the American Housewife: …
"The Handbook of Interior Design offers a compilation of current ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design"--
The handbook of interior design
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Type: Book
"The Handbook of Interior Design offers a compilation of current ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design"--
The handbook of interior design
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Type: Book
"The Handbook of Interior Design offers a compilation of current ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design"--
"The Handbook of Interior Design offers a compilation of current ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design."
The handbook of interior design
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Type: Book
The handbook of interior design
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Type: Book
The Handbook of Interior Design explores ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design. It challenges readers to consider the connections within theory, research, and practice and the critical underpinnings that have shaped interior design.
The handbook of interior design
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Type: Book
The Handbook of Interior Design explores ways of thinking that inform the discipline of interior design. It challenges readers to consider the connections within theory, research, and practice and the critical underpinnings that have shaped interior design. Offers a theory of in…